Hmmm... So are you suggesting that Broadway should go the way of the dinosaur? Why not the way of Classical Music. Broadway was at least as important as Bach in the develompent of culture. Considering that one of it's offsprings (The Music Video) is still doing quite well world wide. No. Not a dinosaur. A classic that deserves some level of respect. (Heh. And I HATE musicals)

Scroll down and look at the other stories that master of editoral disaster, Zonk, has posted over night.

Sorry, I no longer view articles from Zonk on the homepage. Now I get the stories worthy of being read, plus no dupes! Although my homepage is about 4 stories long, it gives me a chance to peruze the different categories.

No, but a few years ago they were (sort of like Beanie Babies used to be valuable and now go on eBay for below retail). Low-UID high-karma accounts are valuable to trolls, because it lets them post crap with a +1 bonus and trick people into reading it.

NY Music theatre festival != BroadwayThe show is getting a small run, along with a TON of other shows as part of a yearly festival (of which there are several as well)...and the authors _hope_ it will move up to Broadway or off-broadway. The odds of that happening are pretty low; in fact even an extension in the same theatre is pretty momentous. For instance, from this year's Fringe festival (a more prestigious festival that just ended), there are about 10 shows out of 200 that are even lucky enough to _con

OMG dude I cannot believe how totally rude you are, you just linked to those poor nerds' intarweb site, and now their server is, like, exploded! Shame on you!!! I hope they link their web page back to you page [slashdot.org]! How do you like it now, huh!?!?!!!!!!~~

Jordan Allen-Dutton and Erik Weiner, authors of "The Bomb-itty of Errors," an award-winning, hip-hop Shakespearean play, have written "Nerds," which they call "a musical software satire." It is to be performed this week at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

The musical explores the lives of Mr. Gates and Mr. Jobs, a founder of Apple, from their teenage years to the present, and includes supporting characters like Apple's other founder, Steve Wozniak, and fictional female love interests.

The authors said they had invited Mr. Gates, Mr. Jobs and Mr. Wozniak to an earlier production of the show at New York University. Only Mr. Wozniak responded, they said, but he did not attend. They said Mr. Wozniak told them that he would try to make it to the show this time. Mr. Gates and Mr. Jobs declined to comment.

The funniest part about this for me is that Jordan is the son of my advisor, who is an electrical engineering professor at Stanford. I've been hearing about this musical since my sophomore year intro to semiconductors course. He even brought the music in on his laptop and played it in class.

Jordan also designs software for iPods, so don't worry! The writers know what real nerds are like.

Well even if the topic is misleading at least we can all rejoice that when we clicked on the pictures link we didn't have to actually see pictures of the REAL Bill Gates! I think we have all had enough of him!
Zonk could have put Bill's ugly mug on the icon on the start page... if thats within his power;)

http://www.nerdsthemusical.com/main.htm [nerdsthemusical.com]
two technological geniuses, as they blaze a path from "garage inventors"...
No wonder they've quoted that. Steve Jobs did nothing but sell Apples, Ol' Woz made them and programmed them with this bare hands and didn't receive any credit.
Whilst Gates stole his initial OS from Apple again.
Remind me why these people are being played off as geniuses instead of criminals?

Ballmer:
I...am.
Gonna set this town, gonna set this world on FIRE!
I...am.
Gonna make our stock, gonna knock his block off HIGHER!
I...am!
Gonna be the one, be the shining sun, be the number one--Bates:
(coughs)

Ballmer:
(sighs) Gonna be true blue, be the number two,
be the bastard whoooooo....
(runs down a line of chairs, scattering them across the stage)
Is gonna be! The! One! To!Chorus:
He's! The! One! To!

When I was apprenticing at Vassar last summer, Nerds was in workshop. For non theatre geeks, that's where you perform the show for a week while tweaking the script. I met one of the playwrights, and he's a nice guy and a software developer.

My mother just read the article and saw the pictures. She says it could be a "Tony" winner.
She hopes it, will come out to California. What intrests us both about this is, the people depicted in this play are possibily the most influential of our time, either positivly or negatively. The fact that none of these powerful people have filed suit against the production for things like "defamation, or slander" must lend some credit to it's honesty. I think it's interesting that this type of stuff is going on now